Tagging FLAC files - any decent TAG editor for W7

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Hi all

Ripping CD's to FLAC is no problem using WINAMP on W7 but on the rare (very rare) occasions when I can't find the track / album data on GRACENOTE / FREEDB is there any way to tag the tracks manually with some sort of "Tag editor" -- I "Think" Flac can handle ID3 - but unlike most here "Digital Music" isn't my "thing" -- I've only really "Discovered" you don't need a CD player or even a CD to play music.

Also once I've got the Tags --any program to scan the music files to extract the data into say "CSV" format that I can then load into an EXCEL Spreadsheet or a Database (Access / MySQL etc).

I don't want to convert anything to MP3 -- I like having the original music in a "Lossless" format -- FLAC is fine.

Cheers
jimbo
 

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Hi Jimbo,

Mediamonkey has full flac tag support including things like composer and the like.

it also supports the export of track lists in HTML, XML, CSV, & Excel formats
 

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Thanks guys

Easytag doesn't however work on my system (W7 X-64 Enterprise)

Screenshot enc

Might try something else

cheers

jimbo
 

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Hi all

Ripping CD's to FLAC is no problem using WINAMP on W7 but on the rare (very rare) occasions when I can't find the track / album data on GRACENOTE / FREEDB is there any way to tag the tracks manually with some sort of "Tag editor" -- I "Think" Flac can handle ID3 - but unlike most here "Digital Music" isn't my "thing" -- I've only really "Discovered" you don't need a CD player or even a CD to play music.

Also once I've got the Tags --any program to scan the music files to extract the data into say "CSV" format that I can then load into an EXCEL Spreadsheet or a Database (Access / MySQL etc).

I don't want to convert anything to MP3 -- I like having the original music in a "Lossless" format -- FLAC is fine.

Cheers
jimbo
This is brilliant prgram for editing media file tags "Tag & Rename". I have been using it for years and runs on W7 no problems. I actually paid for this and it is supported well by the author. You can edit single tracks, multiple tracks, multimple albums etc..... the feature list is long & vast....

Mp3 tag editor Tag&Rename - edit tag in mp3, wma, mp4 files, automatic amazon and freedb import
 

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I've been changing my collection over to .flac from MP3

I have just been using media monkey to tag everything and so far no issues at all.

Album Art, Lyrics, everything seems to be working just fine.
 

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MP3TAG is my editor of choice. It is very easy to use and has a lot of handy features. Also a big shout out goes to Foobar2000 not just a brilliant audio player a very capable tagger it is too :)
 

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Winamp has it's own tag editor, lol.
Insert a CD, list the tracks, CTRL+A -> right click -> Edit CD info :P
 

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